Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love that you will hear them at a feast...
...doubt Higbee's claim. Soballe was ordered back to the area next morning. He found an oil slick spread across the water-hydraulic oil of a kind used exclusively on submarines. That was not enough. The Navy knew how easy it was for an overeager soundman to "hear" torpedo sounds and hull echoes on a lonely watch. False contact, declared the brass, and closed the incident...
...Brussels last week, the big (2,300 seats) Palais des Beaux-Arts was sold out three nights in a row. Belgians were flocking to hear a series of concerts by a topflight old pianist who is known to U.S. music lovers chiefly through imported records. His name: Edwin Fischer...
Some 5,000 mildly startled housewives in New York City picked up their ringing phones last week to hear the familiar accents of Tallulah Bankhead and Fred Allen speaking such plugs for The Big Show. Others heard Kate Smith giving a boost for her show by phone. The voices were tape-recorded, but many a housewife was presumably thrilled to hear the stars talk; some may even have tuned in as suggested. The stunt was the kind that has become a trademarked specialty of a radio go-getter named Ted Cott...
...Communists, says Chambers, are aware of the terrible suffering that the practice of their faith and denial of God imposes on millions of people. And most of them succeed in ignoring or suppressing that awareness. But to some there comes a time when they hear screams in the night -screams "from the execution cellars ... from the torture chambers . . . from . . . the freezing filth of subarctic labor camps." For "there persists in every man, however he may deny it, a scrap of soul." The communist who does not stifle that scrap of soul begins to lose faith in his vision...